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S.H.A.R.E. the Health

Keanna Brown

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February 13, 2026

While the film only lasted thirteen minutes, S.H.A.R.E. led me to re-evaluate my own feminist ways.

Who Told You to Think Like That?

Madison Mäe Adsetts

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January 5, 2026

How institutions script our voices, silence our instincts, and shape the questions we’re allowed to ask.

A Long-Winded Letter to My One True Love, Cigarettes

David King

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February 23, 2023

To this day, I cannot go a day without a fag hanging out of my mouth. I’ll get off the shit when it stops being so cool for me to die a little faster than usual. I sit, alone in my room, writing this, sick in my bed, absolutely yearning for nicotine. I allowed myself half of a smoke just this morning, but it clearly isn't enough for such a growing boy.

A Shy Person's Journey to Playing Dungeons and Dragons

Bethanie Dusome

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February 23, 2023

Dungeons and Dragons is a fantasy role-playing tabletop game where you can be almost anything you want. As a shy person, role-playing always seemed scary, but I wanted to try it as I love fantasy. I was first introduced to it around twelve. At fourteen, I was briefly taught how to make a character. After completing my character, I watched their session and was hooked. I wanted to learn more about it and leave my comfort zone to play.

Summer Courses Are Not That Horrible: Five Reasons To Take Summer Courses

Ngoc Bui

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February 22, 2023

Community Contributor Ngoc Bui outlines the reasons why Summer courses aren't the end of the world - and can come with some surprising benefits.

Screen & Souls

Madison Mäe Adsetts

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November 11, 2025

A plea for wonder in a world that has mistaken data for divinity.

The Death of the Filler Episode

Indigo Moran

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October 16, 2025

The disappearance of dead-end plots is symptomatic of a new age of TV writing.

Gentrifying the Heart (or On Polyamory, Power, and Who Gets to Be Really Radical in Peterborough)

Marisol Campos-Navarrete

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August 19, 2025

What does a political economy of polyamory look like?

Promises and Precarity: How Canadian Policy and Trent's Budget Strategy Exploit International Students

Emma Rivero-Uribe

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August 19, 2025

An examination of how Canadian immigration policy and Trent University’s budget strategy place international students in financially and legally precarious positions

U.S. Isolation and the Coalition of the Willing

J.A. Forrester

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March 1, 2025

"America First" is the present refrain of the dogmatic American right wing, but from where exactly did this mantra arise? James Forrester details a history of U.S. exceptionalism which has seen the country further its own agenda while making the rest of the world pay.

Innocence Abroad ...The Americans are coming, the Americans are coming!

J.A. Forrester

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February 13, 2025

A simple question: Is the United States a global empire in the colonial tradition?

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The Case for Divestment

Irene Suvillaga

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January 11, 2022

As the ramifications of climate change become ever more present, and the direct link between fossil fuels industries and global warming become ever more clear, Trent continues to finance the very same industry that in the 1980s privately predicted the apocalyptic consequences of oil and its emissions. Irene Suvillaga dives into the principles of divestment and its impact, fossil fuel companies’ influence on academia and Trent's reluctance to implement this action.

Trent Bleeds Oil, Not 'Green'

Alyssa Scanga

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November 1, 2021

Alyssa Scanga makes a case for Trent to divest from fossil fuels. Alyssa came to Trent thinking it was a school that shared her green ideals, but upon learning about the Board of Governors decision to forgo divestment in 2015, she realised this was not so. Now more than ever, she says, Trent has a duty to affect this huge change.

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